., new york, et cetera, et cetera, san francisco. the question is what's happening in the middle of the country in the pockets where it was hit hardest and worst and quickest? and so american businesses are doing fabulously. stock market never been higher. all across the board we are doctor every indicator is showing that we are doing better. the question is what about the workers? >> well, yeah. that's a big question. we have the unemployment numbers that were up. a couple hundred and change this last month. do you think it's being felt as a positive uptick turnaround beyond wall street? >> it could be. it's an unusual place, believe it or not. it's in city and state governments because with a strong stock market, the pension process, the pension funds are much more stronger and the cities and states have to contribute a lot less. so they have more money to maybe hire back some of the people they've had to lay off in that time. because that's where most of the jobs were lost was in the public sector. >> elise, do you think lawmakers